Friday, August 20, 2010

NabeWise allows you to understand any neighborhood as if you've already lived there, so you can explore the world on a local level, discover new places, and find the neighborhoods that are right for you.

NabeWise is currently in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle and Chicago. For each city, they offer "real-time neighborhood rankings across 65 key attributes such as, trendiness, noise-level, families, hipsters, and safety — things people really talk about and care about."

So! I thought it was time to look in how the East Village is shaping up against other NYC neighborhoods...

Why so low on the park rating? More people need to get out and enjoy the community gardens - they're open to all and in need of support right now. I'd say they are one of the most valuable assets the EV has to offer.

@Googla, I couldn't agree with you more that community gardens are wonderful in a neighborhood and that they need support! One of the things we are planning with NabeWise, is a page for each place where we list some of the ways to get involved in the neighborhood, and we plan to highlight community gardens in particular. It is well known that they strengthen community ties.

@anonymous, our site is currently focused on helping people that are moving figure out where they should be living, so many of our users are people that are new to the city. Also, I don't see people using the term hipster as positive necessarily. In fact one person in the reviews says that hipsters are getting on his nerves.

In general, our data will grow to be increasingly accurate as more people rate neighborhoods on our site. The reviews and comments will continue to highlight multiple viewpoints on each place as well. We also have a number of additional features planned that will allow us to get even more granular within the context of each neighborhood.

Thanks again for writing about us EV Grieve and if anyone wants to share ideas or thoughts, I'm available at Ann at NabeWise.com

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